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Tennessee Important Dates


Important Dates in Tennessee History

  • 1769 The first permanent settlement was established in the Watauga Valley by people from North Carolina and Virginia.

  • 1777 Washington County, North Carolina, was established to provide governmental jurisdiction over the Watauga settlements. Its boundaries included all of present-day Tennessee.

  • 1779 Nashville was founded and organized settlement of Middle Tennessee began.

  • 1784 North Carolina ceded Tennessee to the federal government. Watauga settlers organized a short-lived "State of Franklin," which was replaced by the Southwest Territory in 1790.

  • 1796 Tennessee became a state.

  • 1816 The first steamboat reached Nashville.

  • 1861 Tennessee seceded from the Union. It was readmitted in 1866. About 110,000 Tennesseans served in the Confederate armed forces and 30,000 - mostly from East Tennessee - fought for the Union.

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